Earls Kitchen + Bar

Loud, busy however decent food that arrived quickly but the server seemed less than interested in us once we placed our drink order on a Saturday night for two waters

Before going to this Earls I had heard rumours that the food and service here were below average. I am pleased to say that this was not the case with my experience. This Earls is at the same level as most other locations I have been to.
The most frequent complaints I’ve heard about this Earls are about the service. This was absolutely not a problem for my group. Our server was attentive and helpful when it came to making decisions about our meals. He was great at his job.
As for the food, everything was as you’d expect from a chain restaurant: predictable menus without anything particularly noteworthy or exciting. I had the Mediterranean pasta which was spicier than I expected (a good thing). We also shared the Japanese Bento box which is a great starter for a group of four. No one in my group had any complaints about the food.
Overall, my experience here was positive and I would definitely consider this Earls for a group outing again in the future.

Another place to try happy hour.
Ambiance: loud, low light ambiance. The usual chain restaurant feel. We noticed a lot more patrons in this restaurant than other ones in Kamloops.
Staff service: not bad. Service is average for these chain restaurants.
Kitchen service: Ordered at 5:25pm and Leroy’s crispy dry ribs are here by 5:30pm, tuna tostada and chicken taco came at 5:33pm, wings arrived at 5:35pm.
Cleanliness: clean.
Taste:
1) dry ribs — 4.5÷5. Not bad flavour.
2) tuna tostada — ⁴⁄₅. Too much condiments to taste the tuna’s natural flavour.
3) Mon Ami Rascal Wine (white) — ³⁄₅. Average wine. Nothing exceptional.
4) mojito (2 oz special for Sat $ 7) — spiked, but only lasts for ½ the drink, which is until the ice melts.
5) Rhinos sleeves Winter dark ale — ⁵⁄₅ dark but sweet. Nice beer to have for Winter time.
6) Wings — ⁴⁄₅ we got BBQ wings and it was pretty good.
Portions: Not bad for the price we pay.
Views: ³⁄₅ this is for the guys. Views are OK. They are not as good as Shark club in kamloops and definitely not as good as Joey’s/Cactus in Vancouver.
Price: the happy hour price is not so bad. I wouldn’t pay for them in full price though.
Conclusion:
We will likely come back for the happy hour again.

The food was good as usual but the service wasn’t up to par. Our server walked past us without acknowledging at least five times before we finally asked someone else who or server was. Twenty five minutes before we even had someone take our drink order. She served two other tables that came in well after us before taking our drink order. I know it’s a busy night but that’s ridiculous.
The food was good as stated earlier but I was really not impressed with the service.

One of the most consistent places in Kamloops. Decent friendly service. The biggest thing here is you know what you are going to get before you come through the door. One complaint is that some of the tables have really awkward configurations and usually ask to get moved to a better table. Will continue to keep it on my lunch rotation. I like the pizza and the jeera curry chicken.

This was a good place to take a seat for a while. Sports on the many TVs in the restaurant, Calm lighting, and classy décor.
Go in for Cesar Sunday. They give you a stick of jerky with your drink, It’s awesome. The waitresses were nice and easy to talk to. It was a booming spot for a Sunday leading me to believe that this place was usually a happening spot. The drinks were topped up on the regular, I didn’t need to call over our waitress even once, she was all over that service.
It’s a fine dine, go get some food and drinks here. You’ll be glad you did.

I haven’t been to Earls in probably 10 years, mostly because of the awful experience I had in another city. My daughter won a gift card so my hubby, and two girls went for lunch.
The décor is very modern without feeling stuffy. Not too noisy, and nice view out the windows. I was pleasantly surprised when the girls got kids menus and crayons as I have heard that Earls doesn’t cater to families. They both chose hamburgers and fries — no big surprise there!
I chose the sushi roll, I believe it was a spicy dynamite roll? Huge roll, nicely displayed and super delicious! Hubby had the soup, salad, and focaccia — soup was clam chowder, which he said was very good. Prices were decent as well.
The best part of our meal was our wonderful waitress, Erika. She was so pleasant, helpful, and quick. Thanks Erika!
I’d definitely come here again, likely for dinner with hubby and no kids.

We returned to this Earl’s today. The service was good, the bacon cheeseburgers were very good, but the price of $ 40 for two burgers, a lemonade, and a pop/​soda is high.

Sunday brunch eggs Bennie was prepared perfectly ! I was resigned to «Chain restaurant» food and instead had one of the best traditional bennies I ever had. Lightly toasted muffin, ham and perfectly poached eggs (nice and runny as I ordered)
Hollandaise was excellent, not goo as served in most places
Skin on home hash browns to top off the meal

Earls is typical Canadian sit down restaurant that tries to appeal to the general populous while providing a variety of different ethnic dishes and food types. This location of Earls, provides nothing surprising or special compared to other restaurants that share the same name. No matter which Earls you go to in Canada, one can normally expect decent, consistence quality food.
Just like all Earls, most appetizers will run you about $ 10, sandwiches/​burgers ~$ 15, and entrees ~$ 20 – 30. For some reason this location in Kamloops is almost always really busy. This Earls is not so busy that you won’t get a table, but it will be typically more than 50% full at regular times, while busy evenings (i.e. Friday and Saturday) will be more than 80% full almost guaranteed. From my experiences, the service can be a little less attentive than at other locations, but nothing that is really off putting or of great concern.
For this location of Earls, there is a great abundance of parking. Additionally, the Kamloops’ Earls has a dining room area, bar area and a fairly large outdoor patio. In the fall months, the part of the patio becomes inclosed so as to make it a bit more comfortable warmth-​wise.
Overall, the Earls in Kamloops, just like Earls elsewhere gives you the typical spread of food options for a chain restaurant with a decent location and service.

Chain consistency is good in a town like Kamloops. Never had a bad experience yet and you know what you are getting. Slow service sometimes but not out of the norm.

Earl’s is one of those places where the food and service is pretty good and because it’s a chain things should be fairly consistent at any location. I’ve been to Earl’s in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Vancouver. Unfortunately, I can say that the food and service are not so great at the Kamloops location. I’ve visited this particular Earl’s many times in the last 5 years and it’s apparent that things have gone downhill. In fact, I have completely given up and will not bother to return to eat at the Earl’s in Kamloops. The food quality is inconsistent. My husband and I tend to order the one of the same 4 items on the menu and have always been happy with our meal. The Kamloops location seems to be unable to deliver a similar quality. Not even close. The service has been mediocre to downright terrible. On one recent visit our server disappeared for over 40 minutes. The restaurant was not busy and we could see her chatting other staff up in the kitchen. Meanwhile we were left without condiments, cutlery and beverages. I spoke to the manager and he assured us that it was not normally like that and invited us to return… which we did a few weeks later and were greeted with the same poorly prepared food and non-​existent service.
Eating out isn’t cheap. Earl’s isn’t exactly inexpensive… Our typical bill after food, drinks and dessert is around $ 75. There are many other places in town that I could get a far better meal and great service. So we will do just that and take our business elsewhere.

More upscale than dennys but the service sucked. Food good, drinks, unfortunately weak.